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At Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, we welcome diversity; we encourage, uplift, and are honored to serve people who have been historically underrepresented and underserved. Our mission is to provide high-quality, culturally appropriate healthcare to low-income residents of Washington and Yamhill Counties, with a special emphasis on seasonal and migrant farm workers and others with barriers to receiving healthcare. We strive to provide an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the diversity of the people we employ and serve.
If you are unsure whether you meet all of the required qualifications for this role but are interested and passionate about this potential position, we encourage you to apply.
Starting Pay Rate: $18.40/hr DOE
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Job Summary: The Patient Engagement Specialist (PES) functions as part of the Quality Team supporting all VGMHC sites and services in providing high quality care focused on patient safety and a patient-centered, trauma-informed experience for patients and their families. The PES works with our patient councils to assure the patient voice is central to our decision-making, engages patients as a part of the VG healthcare community, advocates for patients and their families at VG and with our community partners, and responds to their concerns and grievances. The role also participates in quality improvement, equity, and administrative projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
HIPAA Requirements:
The Patient Engagement Specialist will have access to PHI in the course of their duties. Applying the minimum necessary standard of HIPAA, the designated record sets to which this employee will have access include: all sections of the medical record, patient demographic information in the practice management system, and incoming records, reports, results, consultations, etc. The Patient Engagement Specialist is required to read the content of these records only the extent needed to accomplish the assigned task.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
Education and Experience:
Behavioral Competencies
Accountability
Customer-Focus
Teamwork
Initiative
Confidentiality
Ethical
Respect
Communication
Physical Requirements:
Percentage of time spent:
Working Environment/Physical Hazards:
Equipment used:
Office equipment:
Immunization:
Staff member must meet immunizations requirements as stated in VGMHC’s immunization policy.
Job description represent a general outline of the essential and major job duties, functions and qualifications required. They cannot be all-inclusive and comprehensive due to the dynamic nature of work performed to accomplish VGMHC’s Mission.
VGMHC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No person is unlawfully excluded from consideration for employment because of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, veteran status, marital status or physical challenges. The policy applies not only to recruitment and hiring practices, but also includes affirmative action in the area of placement, promotion, transfer, rate of pay and termination.
Full Time
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
$69k-88k (estimate)
03/31/2024
05/30/2024
virginiagarcia.org
HILLSBORO, OR
200 - 500
1975
Private
GIL MUOZ
$5M - $10M
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
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